R.E.M.

So Fast So Numb

R.E.M.


Tom: C

D             F             C            G
You're movin' through rough waters motel boy,
D         F          C
and swimming in your sleep.
D         F       C          G
How could I be so blind, mis-sighted,
D                  F                 C
not to see there's something wounded deep?


D            F            C       G
Anyone could scratch your surface now,
D        F      C
it's all amphetamine
D           F            C         G
you're blasting yourself into the present
D          F            C
learn some vast indignity, say that,


F            G
You say that you hate it,
F           G
you want to re-create it
Em        C       G              D
I've been around, I've been your lover.
Em      C     F
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
Em            C              G           G
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
                    C
that you can't even feel.

You're drinking the raw Drano baby,
You do-si-do, saddo
You're you in cartilage, shark-eyed, shock horror, all present tense,
and boy your blood is running cold.
Listen, this is now, this is here, this is me,
this is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone, this is past,
you cast yourself cast, passed by, gone down fast, you say,


F            G
You say that you hate it,
F           G
you want to re-create it
Em        C       G              D
I've been around, I've been your lover.
Em      C     F
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
Em            C              G           G
You're coming onto something so fast, so numb
                    C
that you can't even feel.